When you go back through the annals of World Cup history, some of the most memorable tournament moments are those when an unfancied team upsets the apple cart and gatecrashes the latter stages of the competition.
Just about every one of the 22 World Cups played so far have seen a dark horse from outside the sport’s established elite crash the party, such as 2022 semi-finalists Morocco, third-placed finishers Turkey in 2002 or Cameroon who took England to the brink in the 1990 quarter-finals.
